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Your Next Breach Won't Come Through the Contact Form

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The First Agent Your Site Should Serve Is Your Own

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We Built Our Chat Agent the Way Our Research Told Us To

Three Files Nobody Reads

The Index Goes in the Context

One Sentence Beats Every File

Nobody Reads llms.txt (Yet)

Introducing AEO Bench: Measuring Agent Readiness Instead of Guessing

The Cheapest Model Passed Every Gate

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What It Means to Make Your Website Agent-Ready

Give the Model a Tool, Not a Rule

The $effect Trap: Why Svelte's Escape Hatch Gets Overused

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The Error Message Didn't Matter

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It Asked About Things It Already Knew

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The Twenty-First Note: How Three Neutral Components Compose into Silent Data Loss in LLM Memos

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Repeating the Goal Doesn't Make It Yours

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Only the Frontier Knows When to Ask

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The Frontier Doesn't Need the Training Wheels (We Re-Ran Everything to Find Out)

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The Model Always Knew What It Couldn't See

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Stronger LLMs Follow Conflicting Instructions More Literally, Not Less

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Undo That: The One-Line Echo That Replaces a Transcript

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Hand It Everything It Needs: 23 Pre-Registered Studies on LLM Document Editing

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Who Writes the Memo? Auditing the Safety Net We Shipped

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Views Carry Values, Memos Carry Goals: Our First Judge-Graded Study

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The Two Things Your Agent Can't See: Memos and Mentioned Nodes

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The Thirty-Sixth Edit: Long LLM Sessions Don't Need Memory Either

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barkup 0.5: Your Code Finds the Targets Now

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Your Agent Doesn't Need a Memory: Two Worked Examples Replace Session History

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Then We Found the Cheap Part: One Search Call Grounds LLM Tree Edits

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We Tried to Delete the Hard Parts. The Benchmark Said No.

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Stable IDs Are All You Need: Seven Studies on Letting LLMs Edit Trees

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barkup 0.3: Focused Views, or Why the Model Doesn't Need to See Your Tree

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Your Agent's Session Is Drifting (and the Fix Is Cheaper Than the Bug)

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The Model Doesn't Need to See Your Tree

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We Found the Crossover (It Wasn't Where Anyone Looked)

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A Deprecated Accessor That Still Typechecks Broke My Benchmark (and Maybe Your Agent)

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barkup 0.2: We Shipped What the Benchmark Told Us

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We Benchmarked It: What Held Up in 'HTML as a Native Data Format for LLMs', and What Didn't

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Content Is an Overlay: Separating Words from Structure in an AI Document Editor

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HTML as a Native Data Format for LLMs: Why We Encode Our Data in Markup Instead of JSON

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